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Yes you will be able to add ePub books to your iBooks library if they DRM free. There are already ebook readers available on the iPhone/iPod Touch that allow you to add your own ePub books. I don't see why the developers wouldn't make an iPad version.

We also have some good news and some bad news regarding iBooks. The bad news isâ€”and this is something we fully expectedâ€”books purchased through the iBookstore will have Fairplay DRM and won't be compatible with other e-readers. The good news is that iBooks uses the standard ePub format, so any DRM-free ePub files can be loaded into iBooks using iTunes syncing. (Apple hasn't said whether publishers will have an option to make their titles DRM-free.) Some even better news is that iBooks can use VoiceOver to read the contents of any book aloud. You might remember that publishers balked when Amazon added a similar feature to the Kindle 2, and Amazon was forced to remove the capability for most booksâ€”though publishers can still choose to enable it on a per-title basis.

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So are libraries going to be able to loan out drm library books for 2 weeks like they can regular books?

Does anyone know any libraries that are already doing this?

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An interesting thought. You have been listening to the iPad Possibities Podcast have?

I think it is possible, however it's a question of whether or not libiraries have the resouces to investigate and implement those options. I'd be more interested in site license deals for e-text books at greatly reduced prices from print ones, with a deal for updates and support.

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So are libraries going to be able to loan out drm library books for 2 weeks like they can regular books?

Does anyone know any libraries that are already doing this?

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They already do but it requires overdrive and right now only the Sony ereaders have it. I've been waiting for an overdrive iphone app for awhile now. I read there was one in the works but who knows when.

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